MOE should give P1 registration priority to SG kids?

[janet88]

Mawar:

janet_lee88:

I hope MOE cuts down telling us this thing that ALL schools are the same...it is definitely NOT the same or else kids won't have to take school bus at 5am to travel from one end to another...parents won't be driving kids from pasir ris or hougang to bukit Timah.


More should be done to retain born and bred Singaporeans and protect us from PRs who are out to squeeze every single opportunity from us only to run away when duty calls for them to show loyalty.

My sentiments exactly. Stop peddling the idea that all primary schools are the same when no one believes it!!!

It's bullsh*^ to say that all schools are the same...otherwise why would certain schools be exceptionally hot. Even our dear SM sent his 3 children to a VERY popular primary school as even his GRANDCHILDREN !!! So what is this crap about all being the same ?

[Ichigokun]

I think we can give priorities as follows:

1. (Of highest priority) Singaporeans
2. Singapore PRS
3. Foreigners

Singapore is being flooded by foreigners already. Tons of Mainland Chinese people steal all our jobs and houses here.

This is not even the foreigner’s own "home motherland", they are stealing everything. Now even school P1 registration seats?

C’mon. Let’s give Singaporeans some priority.

P.S: Yeah, I’m a Singaporean myself XD

Did you know?

40% of people in Singapore are foreigners.

40% is quite a big number, considering they so-called "don’t belong here"

[Ichigokun]

Anyway, of the recent flare-up on STOMP.


Look at that Mainland Chinese guy who uses our government’s money to study here and he now calls Singaporeans DOGS on Weibo (China Twitter)

Such ungrateful wretches should not even get priorities into our studying system anyway. I can’t swallow such disgusting behavior of betrayal to the country they have been living in.

So says some phrase out there I forgot extracted from where: "biting the hand that fed you"

This phrase suits students like this foreigner Sun Xu very well.

I wonder who stomped that Sun Xu’s Weibo post. I would like to say "GOOD JOB." to that guy.

Now, a couple of months back, there was also another Mainland Chinese foreign student, he dressed as a girl and insulted Singaporeans, in the end he was such a pussy he ran back to China to escape punishment.

Low-lifes. Tsk Tsk Tsk…

[alng]

In MOE’s perspectives, all schools are indeed the same. I think this is becos the resources put in by MOE to all schools are the same except for those special schools such as GEP, SAP, future schools etc.


However, schools differ due to the resources put in by the other stakeholders such as alumni, parents and partners. I have two children. My elder girl is in an elite girls’ school (my alma mater) and my younger son is in P1 this year. He spent one month in a neighbourhood primary school before transferring to another popular school. I have compared the three schools and concluded that schools are indeed not the same.

Just take chess as an example as my son is interested in chess. In the neighbourhood school that my son was in for a month, there was no exposure to chess at all. In his current school now, the school offers chess but parents have to pay for the instructor’s fees. As parents, we are willing to pay that amount for the sake of developing our son’s interests. Then why isn’t chess offered in all schools? Most likely not all parents can afford to pay the fees and when there is low demand, the school is unlikely to offer.

I recall that some years ago when my elder girl was in primary 1, there was no chess club. Some P1 girls were interested in chess and their parents were lobbying for the chess club to be set up. The parents put in the resources (time and money) to run the chess club and to hire instructors. They went round recruiting other girls for the chess club too. Today, the chess club is a formal CCA club in the school.

I hope the Education Minister is starting to recognise that some schools are more popular than others for good reasons.

[tankee]

laughingcat:

You can also ask them to provide facts and figures as in how many PR with sons actually stayed on to do NS and how many actually run away from NS. I have been asking this but they can't answer.

I personally think the public should be known.

Also on the topics of NS......why SGP still has it when other countries are doing away with it? But that is another topics totally. Just an idea to throw around. :offtopic: Mod, i know OT. Can this be another topics to discuss?

what exactly do you have in mind?

whether NS is still relevant and necessary for Singapore?

[Ichigokun]

tankee:

laughingcat:

You can also ask them to provide facts and figures as in how many PR with sons actually stayed on to do NS and how many actually run away from NS. I have been asking this but they can't answer.

I personally think the public should be known.

Also on the topics of NS......why SGP still has it when other countries are doing away with it? But that is another topics totally. Just an idea to throw around. :offtopic: Mod, i know OT. Can this be another topics to discuss?

what exactly do you have in mind?

whether NS is still relevant and necessary for Singapore?

I think NS should NOT be compulsory for all people living in Singapore. Look at those economically stable and still strong-in-their-army countries like China.

It's not like we can't survive without armies.

In China, you can choose whether you want to join NS or not. Guys have the choice, so does the ladies.

[Ichigokun]

Maybe the Singapore government can let citizens choose whether they want NS or not. And if they say yes, give them an attractive pay to keep some people for NS.

[jedamum]

Ichigokun:

Maybe the Singapore government can let citizens choose whether they want NS or not. And if they say yes, give them an attractive pay to keep some people for NS.

OT, SG govt when letting citizens choose whether to serve NS. those said yes will have 80-100% subsidies for healthcare for the rest of their lives. :rahrah: good ah!! sure high NS take up rate!

[BeContented]

OT. Against

Should keep NS as mandatory. Given a choice, afraid we will end up with mostly foreigners & our boys will be toufu cos parents here are damn protective of our children. Now no choice I'll gladly let DS serve NS, if given the choice I'm afraid even if the boy wants it, I might refuse using all sorts of reason such as he will be behind his peers who dun, why so stupid?!?! . :siam:

[laughingcat]

tankee:

laughingcat:

You can also ask them to provide facts and figures as in how many PR with sons actually stayed on to do NS and how many actually run away from NS. I have been asking this but they can't answer.

I personally think the public should be known.

Also on the topics of NS......why SGP still has it when other countries are doing away with it? But that is another topics totally. Just an idea to throw around. :offtopic: Mod, i know OT. Can this be another topics to discuss?

what exactly do you have in mind?

whether NS is still relevant and necessary for Singapore?

:evil: yeap yeap